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apoapsis
noun
The point of a body's elliptical orbit about the system's centre of mass where the distance between the body and the centre of mass is at its maximum.
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The point nearest the focus is the pericentre, or periapsis, and that farthest from it is the apocentre, or apoapsis.
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